//------------------------------// // Chapter 11: The Dynamometer // Story: Initial D: First Equestria Stage // by SixShooterOutlaw //------------------------------// "What?" Twilight asked again "You teleported? she asked Iketani. "Yeah, I did" Iketani answered "I just did what you said when talking about the history of Teleportation Spells". "Wow, that is really cool" Twilight told him "You must have been exhausted after that". "I felt like I was going to pass out" Iketani replied "But I made it back to the castle and into my room before I fell asleep". "So you made it all the way across town and back to your room?" Twilight asked. "Yes, why do you ask?" Iketani said to her. "I need to check something" Twilight said then she jumped off her chair and ran to the library, when everyone else joined her, she had several books floating around her. "What's up, Twilight?" Rainbow asked. Twilight didn't respond. "I don't think she's gonna be talking right now" Rainbow told everyone "So, I think we should head on out of here, come on Itsuki and Kenji, let's do some more flying". The three of them left. "I think I should go check on my animals" Fluttershy said as she left. "I've got to go too, my outfits don't design themselves" Rarity announced as she left. "I've got to make sure nothin' happened at the farm since last night's storm" Applejack said "I know we had it locked up tighter than a drum, but I still need to check". "I'll go with you, just in case you need some help" Takumi told her. "I'll come too!" Pinkie Pie added. "We better go too, I want to make sure nopony is waiting for us with a Cutie Mark problem" Apple Bloom told her friends. "Just a second" Scootaloo said then she galloped over to Iketani and hugged him "See you later!" she said to him happily. Iketani smiled at her "See you later, Scootaloo". Then the three fillies ran off, leaving Twilight and Iketani alone. It was silent for a few minutes until Iketani asked Twilight a question. "What are you looking for?". "A spell" Twilight answered "One that can tell me how strong your magic is". "Really?". Twilight nodded "After what you said about what happened after you teleported everypony out of the Everfree Forest, I'm curious as to how powerful you are". "But I told you I was completely exhausted after I did that". "Yes, but it was your first teleportation, you teleported six others with you and it was a long distance one" Twilight explained "A normal Unicorn would have passed out right after, but you walked all the way to the castle and to your bedroom, that would take a lot of magic and energy". "So you think I'm more powerful than a regular Unicorn?" "Possibly" Twilight said "It might have just been an adrenaline rush that night, but I'm still curious" she added as she flipped through the pages of a big, blue book "AH-HA!" Twilight exclaimed "I found it!" she said proudly "This spell is meant to see how powerful a Unicorn is". "How does it work?" Iketani asked. "I'm not quite sure" Twilight said "Nopony really understands how you check Unicorn magic, but I think it reads how much Magic Power you have". "Oh, like using a Dynamometer to check the Horse Power of a car!" Iketani thought out loud. "What?" Twilight asked "Horse Power? Dynamometer?". "I'll explain later" Iketani told her. "Ookaay" Twilight said questioningly but then continued "It will take a few minutes to get the full results but I really want to know and I bet you do too. Are you ready?". "Ready" Iketani answered. Twilight began casting the spell, suddenly a bright light flashed and lit the entire room up. Twilight looked over and noticed that Iketani's horn was glowing a bright blue. Iketani looked up at his horn then back to Twilight "What does that mean?". "It shows how powerful you are" Twilight told him "It says in the book, the brighter the glow the more powerful you are" she then continued "A few weeks before I left for Ponyville, Princess Celestia did this spell on me, she said my horn was extremely bright and not long after I became an Alicorn we re-did the test and it glowed so brightly, it lit up the room like somepony turned a spotlight on". "Wow" Iketani said "You must be very powerful!". Twilight blushed "Thank you, but you should have seen how powerful I was when I had all the Princesses magic, searchlight, no lie." she told him. "You could have used the glow to guide ships in a storm" she said with a chuckle "Wow" Iketani said with a grin. She then went back to research mode "I really wonder why a Unicorn that is actually a person from another world be so powerful..". "What do you mean?". "I mean that I'm curious as to why someone from a different world be more powerful than the average Unicorn" Twilight explained "I have another way to check, it's something I developed". Iketani tried to hide the near frightened look on his face before Twilight noticed but it was too late. "It's perfectly safe" Twilight reassured him "I've used it before, on Rarity, The Princesses and even myself" she explained "It works fine". "Alright, I'll let you use it" Iketani said, relieved to hear that the machine or what ever it was, was completely safe for use. Twilight lead him to her research room, she opened the door and Iketani looked in the room and saw a bunch of different machines and wires. They both entered the room and stood in the middle of it. "Can you just stay right here?" Twilight asked. "Okay" Iketani replied and did just that, Twilight trotted over, grabbed something that looked like it was out of an older science fiction/time traveling movie and she stuck it on his head. "Alright, I just turn this machine on and in a few moments we'll know just how powerful you are" Twilight told him. A few minutes later a long piece of paper came out of the printer part of the machine and Twilight began analyzing it. After several minutes went by and Twilight was still reading the paper, Iketani really wondered what was up. "What does it say?" he asked her. Twilight took a deep breath, "Okay Iketani, from what I read it says you have above average levels of magic" she told him. "You said that before". "I know, but it's how much more". "What do you mean?". "Your magic level is much higher than a normal Unicorn" Twilight explained "It's not as high as somepony like me but not much lower either". "So, I'm almost as powerful as you were as a Unicorn?" Iketani asked, completely shocked. "Yeah". "But why?". "I don't know" Twilight said "What kind of job do you have in your world?". "I work at a gas station". "So, nothing pertaining to magic in any form?". "No". "This is weird, cool, but weird" Twilight said "But this opens up so many possibilities" she grinned "I really want to work on your teleportation abilities first, since you have already done it once it should be easy to repeat it!" Twilight then looked over to Iketani "Let's go!" she said then the two of them disappeared in a flash of light. They reappeared in the library, Iketani was a little surprised by the sudden teleportation but shook it off. Twilight trotted over to a bookshelf and started looking for something. Twilight then walked over to a different shelf and looked there, a while later she had looked at every single one but she didn't find what she was looking for. "Where did I put that book.." Twilight thought out loud, then she remembered, she teleported away from the room then came back with a big box. "What's in the box?" Iketani asked. "This box has a bunch of my old magic school books from when I was learning magic" Twilight answered as she shuffled through the contents of the box "I know I have a book all about teleportation in here...Found it!" she exclaimed as she pulled out a book and showed it to Iketani "This book taught me everything there is to know about basic teleportation!" she then let Iketani use his own magic to hold the book "I have that book memorized so I know it like the back of my hoof" she told him "So, turn it to page fifty, that page has the teleportation spell in it. I want you to find it and cast it". "Alright" Iketani responded, he opened the book and started to flip through pages like Twilight taught him, but as he did it caused a huge cloud of dust to fly up at him, making him sneeze. "AAAACHHOO!" Iketani sneezed and disappeared in a flash of light, he reappeared a few feet over then sneezed again. Iketani kept sneezing and teleporting everywhere, finally coming to a stop, he was standing on top of the back of a chair, the chair tipped over with him on it. Twilight helped him back up. "Wow I've never seen a Unicorn do that before" Twilight said to him "I did that once when I was a filly, but it wasn't dust it was after I sniffed a flower" she then looked at a dazed Iketani whose eyes were watery due to the sneezing fit "I hope we can help you control your magic, Heaven forbid you get a cold before then" Twilight said "That would not be good". "I agree" Iketani said then he sniffed, then he started sounding like he was about to have another sneezing fit but stopped himself. "Let's get you some allergy medicine before continuing with the lesson" Twilight suggested and Iketani nodded trying to hold back a sneeze. After she got him the medicine they continued the lesson, without any more sneezing and random teleportation.